The stench was puffy, the mosquitoes were muffled, the old man was in rags, and suddenly felt that there was an itch on his back, so he reached out and grabbed it, and when he took it back, he saw that there was an extra louse in his palm. He put the lice in his mouth and clicked.

Hey, this was the only meat he had eaten these days.

Lu Shoujiao came back at this time, he was tall and muscular, wearing an equally tattered short brown, faintly revealing the dark skin inside. I also have to thank him for this mighty body, when he went to receive food, as long as others saw his calm and unangry face, let alone robbing him, they were all three feet away.

He took out two hard steamed buns from his arms and gave one to the old man.

The old man took a bite and almost knocked out the few teeth he had left. After a while, he could feel a dull pain in his gums, and he couldn't help sighing: "This steamed bun is not only getting less and less day by day, but also getting harder day by day, and in a few days, we will probably have to dig up the roots and eat it again." ”

The two were originally fellow villagers, but a few months ago the war swept across their village, and every household was looted by officers and soldiers. The ancestors have been operating for a hundred years, and they have been burned by a fire. The originally prosperous village was suddenly desolate like a ghost domain, leaving only countless bones unburied.

The old man originally had a wife, and he starved to death on the way to escape, but fortunately he met Lu Shoushan at that time, and the two hurriedly buried his wife, and wandered all the way to the capital.

Lu Shoushan turned out to be a hunter, a tall martial artist, and his parents died, but he was alone and had no worries.

Lu Shoujiao gnawed on the stone-like unpalatable steamed buns in his mouth, remembering the arrogant and contemptuous expressions of those officers and soldiers when he went to receive food before, he couldn't help but clench his big fists.

"No," he swore assuringly, "there is no way out, and if we can escape from the border town, God will not let us starve to death here." ”

The old man felt that he was joking, and sighed: "Shoushan, the lives of our people are lower than ants......"

Lu Shoushan looked up at Yanjing City in the distance, he had heard people since he was a child that the high city walls were dazzlingly prosperous and extravagant, which was completely different from this place where the displaced people gathered.

Zhu Huaizhang, the king of Yong, is in the Forbidden City and even the most extravagant place in the world.

Xia Guifei likes incense, and she likes unique incense. Therefore, Chuxiu Palace is full of flowers, and some are even out of season, like the bouquet of red plums, which are cultivated from the ice cellar. A small palace, fragrant, full of gold, silver and jade, antique treasures. If any palace person takes one at will, it is estimated that she will not have food and clothing for the rest of her life.

King Yong waited at the bottom of the hall, followed by his newly recruited craftsmen.

At this time, I heard a coquettish yawn sound from the layers of shark yarn, it was Xia Guifei who came out.

In the end, she is the emperor's favorite concubine, like a fairy. It is the beauty of the country, and because of the initial recovery of the disease, depressed, the delicate eyebrows and eyes add a trace of sick and weak coquettishness, just like the peony flowers that have been beaten by the rain, which makes people feel pity.

"Mother."

"Concubine Niangniang."

The two of them saluted.

Unexpectedly, Xia Guifei, who was on top, snorted unhappily.

King Yong smiled flatteringly: "Mother, what's wrong, who made you unhappy, Huaizhang will kill him." ”

This King Yong doesn't say anything else, the only thing that is commendable is his face.

How bad Zhu Huaizhang's reputation is, how good his appearance is.

This flattering smile, if it were someone else, I was afraid that it would make Xia Guifei even more unappetizing. But the person who made this expression was King Yong, even if he was expressionless or even eccentric, he was shocking.

This is the benefit of beauty, as soon as Xia Guifei saw this face, her anger actually disappeared by half.

"Who do you say? I looked forward to the stars and the moon, and waited day and night, but there was no one to be seen. You're embarrassed......"

The more Xia Guifei's emotions became more and more uncontrollable, but fortunately, the palace maid on the side had already driven away the idlers and others. She coughed lightly in time and interrupted Xia Guifei.

King Yong said softly: "Mother......"

Xia Guifei was furious: "Don't call me that!" ”

"Good, good!" King Yong smiled, "Isn't Erchen here to ask for sin?" You see, who have I brought to you? ”

He dodged, and the person wearing the melon skin hat behind him was exposed in front of Xia Guifei's eyes.

Xia Guifei was puzzled: "This is?" ”

"He, but Hebei has become the best skilled person in juggling, and no matter how many princes and nobles invite him to perform, he can't move. Erchen brought him today, just to make his mother smile. ”

"That's a good idea, tell him to play a trick." Xia Guifei is young in the end, she likes these fun things, and the old emperor knows about cultivation and alchemy every day, but she is bored.

King Yong instructed, the skilled person is familiar with the way, one moment conjure up a chirping bird, and the other time to take things in the air and follow the steps on Xia Guifei's head, full of tricks, dazzling.

Xia Guifei's depression for many days was swept away, and she praised endlessly, clapped her hands and said, "Wonderful! It's wonderful! ”

The artist performed a few more tricks, and Concubine Xia was full of eyes, so she let him retreat with the big palace maid.

All of a sudden, there were only two men and a woman left in the temple.

Xia Guifei saw King Yong standing there, raised her sword eyebrows, beckoned, and said coquettishly: "Don't come over quickly." ”

King Yong respectfully went over and helped her get up, and the two went inside.

The hibiscus tent was warm, and Xia Guifei kissed King Yong's eyebrows, and collapsed in his arms like a ball of fragrant mud.

"Ning'er......" King Yong seemed helpless and full of love to call Xia Guifei.

When Xia Guifei heard King Yong call her by her name, she suddenly had mixed tastes, and tears fell from her eyes: "Why don't you come to see me, you don't know how much I miss you, I'm almost lovesick." Facing that old immortal every day, I really can't stand it anymore. ”

King Yong touched her head soothingly: "Don't worry, the old man doesn't have much to live." As long as he dies and I get the throne, I will let you be the queen, isn't it okay for us to be affectionate and loving like ordinary couples? ”

"Really?" Xia Guifei burst into tears and laughed, half warning, "You have to talk and count, I have done so many things for you, you can't let me down!" ”

"Of course."

The two of them rubbed their ears and temples for a while, and the atmosphere in the hall gradually became ambiguous. Xia Guifei was very active today, and a pair of slender jade hands were about to untie King Yong's clothes, but he held them with his palm.

"Ning'er, have you practiced calligraphy recently?"

Xia Guifei didn't expect him to ask about this at a critical moment, and was stunned for a moment and said, "What you said, how could I forget to do it?" ”

King Yong smiled lightly: "That's good." ”

In order to prevent the authoritarian power of the heroine in this dynasty, the concubine was not of high origin, and Xia Guifei was just the daughter of a bookmaker, but she wrote as well as her father. A long time ago, King Yong begged her to learn to imitate the emperor's words, and now it is almost true. She didn't understand the meaning of doing this, she was just a little woman, she just longed for love, so naturally she wouldn't think about it.

The spring night is short, and the room is round.

Zhu Ran was not surprised to see King Yong come out of Chuxiu Palace with a stinky face, which was the case a long time ago. He remembered that King Yong went to see Xia Guifei for the first time, and when he returned to the mansion, he had this expression of wanting to eat people, and somehow lost his temper, and cut off a maid's hands with a blunt knife, it is said that it was just because the maid accidentally touched him when he was waiting.

It was a blunt knife, not a cut, it was grinding, a little bit of grinding of the muscles and bones, and the intense and long pain was infinitely magnified. I still remember that the maid shouted so heartbreakingly that people would have nightmares when they heard it.